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Death by Pad Thai
And Other Unforgettable Meals
E-bok, 2010
227 kr
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In this collection of 20 essays—including a number of recipes—by some of the country’s finest writers, food is the central player in memories both exquisite and excruciating. Food isn’t just a gustatory pleasure; it is the stuff of life. At its best and most memorable, a meal becomes a story—and a …
Stuff of Fiction
Advice on Craft
E-bok, 2010
434 kr
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In this book, prizewinning novelist and popular creative writing instructor Douglas Bauer ( The Book of Famous Iowans ) shares the secrets of his trade. Talent, as Bauer acknowledges, is the most crucial element for a writer and cannot be taught. But without a regular habit of work, and a …
Stuff of Fiction
Advice on Craft
Häftad, 2006
336 kr
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In this book, prizewinning novelist and popular creative writing instructor Douglas Bauer (The Book of Famous Iowans) shares the secrets of his trade. Talent, as Bauer acknowledges, is the most crucial element for a writer and cannot be taught. But without a regular habit of work, and a …
Beckoning World
A Novel
Häftad, 2022
185 kr
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The Beckoning World is set in the first quarter of the twentieth century and follows Earl Dunham. His weeks are comprised of six days mining coal, followed by Sundays playing baseball. Then one day a major-league scout happens on a game, signs Earl, and he begins a life he had no idea he could even …
Prairie City, Iowa
Three Seasons at Home
Häftad, 2008
189 kr
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Weary from the journalistic treadmill of 'going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests' and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. Back in Prairie City, he helped on his father's farm, scooped grains at the …
What Happens Next?
Matters of Life and Death
Häftad, 2013
175 kr
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What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents’ lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regrets …
Book of Famous Iowans
A Novel
Häftad, 2014
180 kr
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Will Vaughn, a man of late middle age living in Chicago with his second wife, remembers the month of June 1957 in his hometown, the rural village of New Holland, Iowa. More precisely, Will remembers just a few days of that month and the quick sequence of astonishing events that have coloured, ever …
Dexterity
A Novel
Häftad, 2014
180 kr
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Douglas Bauer’s profound and exquisitely written first novel quickly established him as one of America’s best new writers. This is the story of Ed and Ramona, high school lovers who married young. And when Ramona, seeing the ever-clearer reality of life with Ed, turns and walks away from her house, …
Very Air
A Novel
Häftad, 2014
190 kr
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Luther Mathias sells "snake oil" in scrubby West Texas dirt towns. He learns that substance is never a substitute for style and eventually develops his own remedies that promise to cure any ailment a man might suffer. In time, his imagination and ambition combine to mold him into medicine’s version …
